Ayyub
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ) Ayub; Ajjub: männl
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɪiəb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ayyub is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 4.5Kas Ayub(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.2Kas Ayub
- PKPakistan≈1 in 8.5Kas Ayub
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ayyub itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 named Ayub, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ayub in ES Spain, KE Kenya, ID Indonesia and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
) Ayub; Ajjub: männl. Vom., arabisdie Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ayyub counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #569 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | listed | Ayub | 67 |
| PK Pakistan | #908 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | listed | Ayyub | 110 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Ayub | 114 |
| KE Kenya | #424 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | listed | Ayub | 53 |
| ES Spain | — | 11,576as Ayoub | 1 in 4.3K | 12K | Ayub | 19 |
| KW Kuwait | #727 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Ayub | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 2.1K | Ayub | 15 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ayyub is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
one who returns; one who
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, a Prophet; the biblical Job
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ayyub Axel Köhlerb. 1938DEGerman Muslim, former Chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany
- Ayyub Guliyevb. 1954AZAzerbaijani astrophysicist
- Ludovic-Mohamed Zahedb. 1977FRnot in their usual nameTunisian-French LGBTQ+ activist
- Ayoub El Kaabib. 1993MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan footballer (born 1993)
- Ayoub Ghadfab. 1998ESnot in their usual nameSpanish boxer
- Ayyoub Allachb. 1998BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player
- Ahmed Hafnaouib. 2002TNnot in their usual nameTunisian swimmer
- Ayoub Assalb. 2002GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer
- Ayyoub Bouaddib. 2007FRnot in their usual nameMoroccan association football player (born 2007)
- Ayoub Layoussifinot in their usual nameactor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ayyub?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪiəb/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- What does the name Ayyub mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Ayub; Ajjub: männl.
- In which country does Ayyub have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Ayub in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ayyub most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ayyub is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 2.9 million people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ayyub?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6 people named Ayyub, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
- How common is Ayyub compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Ayyub is the 569th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ayyubThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ayyub” — the 569th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.